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.......................................................................... 18 OXFORD ....................................................................... ..., in the persons of their children, meeting for study at the same schools, colleges, military academies, &c.; by what furious forgetfulness of the rea... ...er that chiefly people our parks. Red deer were also found at Blenheim, in Oxfordshire, when it was visited by Dr. Johnson, as may be seen in “Boswell... ...apter), this noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchest... ...his noble foundation secured a number of exhibitions at Brasenose College, Oxford, to those pupils of the school who should study at Manchester for th... ...ve, the German term Bursch,—that is, a bursarius, or student, who lives at college upon the salary allowed by such a bursary. Some years ago the edito... ... known as “the great north road”); on the road west to Bath, and thence to Exeter and Plymouth; north-westwards from Lon- don to Oxford, and thence to... ...n " ..................................................... 124 4. Exeter " ..................................................... 2...

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... in his life, as well as in that of his son. The elder John Patteson was a colleger, and passed on to King’s College, Cambridge, whence, in 1813, he c... ...vity. Their tumultuous loyalty and audacity appear in Coley’s letter:— ‘In college, stretching from Hexter’s to Mother Spier’s was a magnificent repre... ...dreadful pain for some time. Then came the Queen’s carriage, and I thought college would have tumbled down with the row. The cheering was really treme... ... Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, then Arch- deacon of Surrey, and since Bishop of Oxford and of Win- chester, preached in the morning at New Windsor parish c... ... ‘My dearest Father,—Hearing that “Israel in Egypt” was to be performed at Exeter Hall on Friday night, I went and asked my tutor whether he had any o... ...f attention to school business. Work on regularly, and you will do well at Oxford. I have a line from your tutor, who seems to think that it was in Ju... ...ion and fellow-feeling from the society with which they are connected. The Oxford of Patteson’s day was yet untouched by the hand of reformation. The ... ... after pushing through such a crowd as usually blocks up the entrance into Exeter Hall, I found on getting into the Ca- thedral that every seat was oc... ...myself—and if I did not do much good, I think I did no harm. The Bishop of Exeter [Phillpotts] is mightily pleased, and wrote me a letter to that effe...

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...l choose,’ said James. ‘Either he shall study at the learned university at Oxford or at Paris, or he shall ride with me, and see how cities and battle... ...ter, with the Countess of March; the Duke of Orleans, with the Countess of Exeter; and Malcolm of Glenuskie found himself paired off with his sovereig... ...t were well to suppress the alien priories, and give their wealth to found colleges like that founded by Bishop Wykeham.’ For in truths the spirit of ... ... bred up among William of Wykeham’s original seventy at Winchester and New College, and now much trusted and favoured by the King, whom he everywhere ... ...colm, meantime, was balancing between the now approaching decision between Oxford and France. He certainly felt something of his old horror of warlike... ...of all he cared for, if he were left among a set of stranger shavelings at Oxford. Yet he was reluctant to break with the old habits that had hitherto... ...arge.’ ‘Warwick is waiting admission,’ said Bedford. ‘He and Salisbury and Exeter rode with me.’ The King’s face lighted up with joy as he heard this.... ...ding post haste to take charge of the army; Robsart was gone to the Queen, Exeter to the Duke of Burgundy; and as the clergy were all engaged with the... ... so pictur- esquely beneath the archway of its tower up to the hall of the college of St. Mary Winton, then really New College. He had been residing t...

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...eld in Wiltshire. In 1800, at the age of fifteen, De Quincey was ready for Oxford; he had not been praised without reason, for his schol- arship was f... ...er that after three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation ... ...fter three years’ stay he might secure a scholarship at Brasenose College, Oxford. He remained there—strongly protesting against a situation which dep... ... De Quincey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be loo... ...ey was brought home and finally allowed (1803) to go to Worcester College, Oxford, on a reduced income. Here, we are told, “he came to be looked upon ... ...(or nearly all) in early manhood. In most universities there is one single college; in Oxford there were five-and-twenty, all of which were peopled by... ...” And, as to fire, I never knew but one in a mail- coach; which was in the Exeter mail, and caused by an obsti- nate sailor bound to Devonport. Jack, ...

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...oi peri ton Platona], rushed out, eager for the spectacle. The fire was in Oxford Street, at a piano-forte maker’s; and, as it promised to be a confla... ...Consulting Grant’s “Observations on the Bills of Mortality,” (4th edition, Oxford, 1665,) I find, that out of 229,250, who died in London during one p... ... reign which was notoriously favorable to the arts generally. She lived in College Green, with a single maid-servant, neither of them having any prete... ...TION. TION. TION. TION. SOME TWENTY or more years before I matriculated at Oxford, Mr. Palmer, M.P . for Bath, had accomplished two things, very hard ... ...wo thousand resident 3 in Oxford, and dis- persed through five-and-twenty colleges. In some of these the custom permitted the student to keep what ar... ....” And, as to fire, I never knew but one in a mail-coach, which was in the Exeter mail, and caused by an obstinate sailor bound to Devonport. Jack, ma... ...n Oxford, about 1804-5, there was a general move in the dinner hour. Those colleges who dined at three, of which there were still several, now dined a...

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...ducated men entering life, to take this course, we will say, after that at college; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the li... ...ts splendid cloisters, vast airy dormitories, and magnificent church. Some Oxford gentlemen would have wept to see the desecrated edifice,—to think th... ...ave translated Jack and Jill into Greek iambics, and been a credit to your college. ”I turned testily away from her. “Madam,” says I, “because an eagl... ...om Cornhill to Grand Cairo whistled a polka so bewitchingly that two young Oxford men began whirling round the deck, and performed that popular dance ... ...te fluently—which I thought he might have learned when he was a student at college, before he began his profession of shoemaking; but I found he only ... ...y we lay to for a while at another ruined theatre, that of Antiphilos. The Oxford men, fresh with recol- lections of the little-go, bounded away up th... ...most learned Rabbi, as I gath- ered. Suppose the daughter of the Rabbi of Exeter, or Can- terbury, were to marry a man who turned Jew, would not her ...

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... by the bye, in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trust... ..., in many respects the most comfortable, as well as the richest college at Oxford,—was the archdeacon’s most intimate friend and most trusted counsell... ...s last legs; but the ministry was also tottering. Dr Grantly returned from Oxford happy and elated, to resume his place in the pal- ace, and to contin... ...y as a country rector—nowhere were the powers that be so cher- ished as at Oxford. When, however, Dr Whately was made an archbishop, and Dr Hampden so... ...o evil would come to him in encountering even such foes as his brethren of Exeter and Oxford. Dr Proudie was an ambitious man, and before he was well ... ..., ha! Why, in the way we’ve left the matter, it’s very odd if the heads of colleges don’t have their own way quite as fully as when the hebdomadal boa... ...he hospital, Mr Harding, ’ began Mr Slope, speak- ing of it as the head of college at Cambridge might speak of some sizarship which had to be disposed... ... Arabin was from habit brazed-faced enough. When standing on a platform in Exeter Hall, no man would be less mazed than he by the eyes of the crowd be...

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...the Stone Jug:*—yet awhile to listen, hurdle- mounted, and riding down the Oxford Road, to the bland con- versation of Jack Ketch, and to hang with hi... ...rrated with much candour to Mrs. Catherine. He rode the Captain’s horse to Oxford (having exchanged his military dress for a civil costume on the road... ...e disposed of “George of Denmark,” a great bargain, to one of the heads of colleges. As soon as Mr. Brock, who took on himself the style and title of ... ...of both. For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awaking suddenly t... ...—shame to say—transported for stealing three pewter- pots off a railing at Exeter; and not being known in the town, which they had only reached that m... ...o try his fortune in the metropolis; where he lived, flourished, and died. Oxford Road, Saint Giles’s, and Tottenham Court were, at various periods of... ...ee pewter-pots from a public-house, they, under false names, were tried at Exeter, and transported for seven years beyond the sea. Thus it is seen tha... ...ency means,” said the Abbe, a fat grey-haired Irishman, from the Irlandois College at Paris. His Excellency did not laugh, nor understand jokes of any...

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...’ ‘I had mine too. He was an Italian, called Benedetto. I met him first at Oxford on Magdalen T ower when I was learning my trade—or trades, I should ... ... to Saye’s Horse, and fought the King— or rather the man Charles Stuart—in Oxfordshire (I had my learning at Cambridge), the plague was very hot all a... ... ‘But why talk of the plague this rare night?’ ‘To prove my argument. This Oxfordshire plague, good people, being generated among rivers and ditches, ... ...what shall come after.’ ‘Mark also, Nick,’ said Puck, that we are not your College of Physicians, but only a lad and a lass and a poor lubberkin. Ther... ... ‘Zack T utshom?’ ‘No, Jack Marget,’ said Mr Culpeper. ‘Jack Marget of New College? The little merry man that stammered so? Why a plague was stutterin... ...King should have conquered the rebels, as he styled us Parliament men. His College had lent the King some monies too, which they never got again, no m... ...you,” said he, smiling, to Nigel of Ely. He was one bishop; and William of Exeter, the other— Wal-wist the Saxons called him—laughed long. “Rahere is ... ...th must upheave a people? We must have the Law.” ‘“Truth,” said William of Exeter; but that he would have said to any word of the King. ‘The two great... ...eard Rahere’s voice returning, in a scurril Saxon rhyme against William of Exeter: ‘“Well wist Wal-wist where lay his fortune When that he fawne...

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...n, and pleased that he should wish to tread in his own steps at Harrow and Oxford, and thus my mother could not openly regret his degeneracy when all ... ...D A HOUSEFUL at Christmas. The Rev. Charles Henderson, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, lately or- dained a deacon, had been recommended to us by ... ...FUL at Christmas. The Rev. Charles Henderson, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, lately or- dained a deacon, had been recommended to us by our Lon- ... ... her a miniature, and confided to her that the original was waiting till a college living should come to him in the distant future. Admiral Griffith c... ...hold what he called a symposium in his rooms, and to think it a mystery of college life not intended for young ladies. He really had prepared a sort o... ...ge was requisite for us both; but I suspect it was more in accordance with Oxford habits that he had provided a bottle of sherry and another of ale, s... ...tle longer than we intended, crossing the moors so as to spend a Sunday at Exeter; but Frank Fordyce left us, not liking to give his father the entire... ...he had to make her own peace with him. She sacrificed her own enjoyment of Exeter Cathedral to go about with him when he had had enough of it, but on ...

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...me in Devonshire—her fa- ther kept a turnpike on the high-road that led to Exeter , and there were pigs in the sty , and there was a cow, and the cow ... ...e popish. This was a taunt that al- ways aroused the Vicar. He had been at Oxford during the movement which ended in the seces- sion from the Establis... ...l of time in drawing the Andes or the Apennines. The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were ordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished ... ...rine’s Street—and said he hoped Tom would remain with them till he went to Oxford. The school was Perkins and Cooper’s best cus- tomer , and Mr. Perki... ...ent out of his way to express his satis- faction that he was going to that college. He pre- pared himself for a distinguished career. He moved in the ... ...had persuaded his people to let him come and study art instead of going to college; but at the end of that period he was to return to Seattle and go i... ... . ” Most of the students took the curriculum of the Conjoint Board of the College of Surgeons and the College of Physicians; but the more ambi- tious...

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... And indeed it did. For, the great army landing from the great fleet, near Exeter, went forward, laying England waste, and striking their lances in th... ..., however, it was agreed to refer the whole question to a great meeting at Oxford, which decided that Harold should have all the country north of the ... ...and 62 any distinction, sparing none, young or old, armed or unarmed, were Oxford, Warwick, Le icester, Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, York. In all thes... ...he long war went on afresh. Once, she was pressed so hard in the Castle of Oxford, in the winter weather when the snow lay thick upon the ground, that... ...sbury and a hun dred soldiers. In this distress, the King’s two brothers, Exeter and Surrey, offered to go to Henry to learn what his intentions were... ...s intentions were. Sur rey, who was true to Richard, was put into prison. Exeter, who was false, took the royal badge, which was a hart, off his shie... ..., it being February, was filled with people; and the priests of Gloucester College were looking complacently on from a window, and there was a great c... ...fering of these two good Protestant men was in the City ditch, near Baliol College. On coming to the dreadful spot, they kissed the stakes, and then e... ...ssin, who confessed that he had been kept and trained for the purpose in a college of Jesuits. The Dutch, in this surprise and distress, offered to ma...

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...lwind, as one was tempted to call him. In youth, he had studied at Trinity College, Dublin; vis- ited the Inns of Court here, and trained himself for ... ...l that remained of the young family; much attached to one another in their College years as afterwards. Glasgow, however, was not properly their Col- ... ...1851) the learned editor of St. Basil, and Regius Professor of Divinity in Oxford, who continued ever afterwards a val- ued intimate of John’s, I find... ...inning of his nineteenth year, “in the autumn of 1824,” he went to Trinity College, Cambridge. His brother Anthony, who had already been there a year,... ...and the quiet little row of houses op- posite, with the huge dust-whirl of Oxford Street and Lon- don far enough ahead of you as background,—as back- ... ...dent it is that Phillpotts is not Archbishop of Tuam, and M’Hale Bishop of Exeter; and how slight a change of dress, and of a few catchwords, would ev... ...ow excellent his worth, his parts how rare. A younger son, he learnt in Oxford’s halls The spheral harmonies of billiard-balls, Drank, hunted... ...- ism,—then on the point of disappearing; and it too has left its mummy at Exeter Hall on the platform and else- where. One must go back to the Middle...

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...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ared Joseph. “Order Mr. Jos’s elephant, Sambo!” cried the father. “Send to Exeter ‘Change, Sambo”; but seeing Jos ready almost to cry with vexation, t... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...l’s, jingling rapidly by the strangers’ entry of Fleet-Market, which, with Exeter ‘Change, has now departed to the world of shadows—how they passed th... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my... ...ved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. Once, when just from college, and when Horrocks the butler brought him a letter without placing ... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car...

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...nd some of these were at livery at the establishment of the Captain’s old “college” companion, Mr. Snaffle. It was easy, therefore, for the Captain to... ...thought it an honour to be so distinguished: as if W alker had been a Lord Exeter to marry a humble maiden, or a noble prince to fall in love with a h... ...s!” added the player. “Billingsgate and V auxhall were there too, and left college at eight o’clock.” When Morgiana was told of the circumstance by he... ...ut deplore the dangerous fasci- nations of the dance,” and writes more for Exeter Hall and Birmingham. While Baroski drives a cab in the Park with a v... ...re born. Where are they now? Fred the brave captain, and Charles the saucy colleger: there hangs a drawing of him done by Mr. Beechey, and that sketch... ...uod, Lady Thrum. Were you ever in college?” “I was at the Commemoration at Oxford in 1814, when the sovereigns were there, and at Cambridge when Sir G...

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... her of the King’s interest and de- light in his beautiful freshly-founded Colleges at Eton and Cambridge, how the King rode down whenever he could to... ...ever met I woman who was so good company! She might almost be a scholar at Oxford for her wit.” However much solace the lady might find in the courtes... ...owst I am a knight, worse luck.” “Heed not for thy knighthood. The Duke of Exeter and my Lord of Oxford have put their honours in their pouch and are ... ...rse luck.” “Heed not for thy knighthood. The Duke of Exeter and my Lord of Oxford have put their honours in their pouch and are serving him. Thy lame ... ...onour of the matter, what did Sir Leonard tell us but that the Countess of Oxford, as now she is, was maintaining her husband by her needle?” and Gris...

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...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ared Joseph. “Order Mr. Jos’s elephant, Sambo!” cried the father. “Send to Exeter ‘Change, Sambo”; but seeing Jos ready almost to cry with vexation, t... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...l’s, jingling rapidly by the strangers’ entry of Fleet-Market, which, with Exeter ‘Change, has now departed to the world of shadows—how they passed th... ...o go outside in the rain, where, however, a young gentleman from Cambridge College sheltered me very kindly in one of his several great coats. This ge... ...lum—old Methusalem.” Mr. Hodson laughed again. “The young men is home from college. They’ve whopped John Scroggins till he’s well nigh dead.” “Whop my... ...ved rather than have dined without a white neckcloth. Once, when just from college, and when Horrocks the butler brought him a letter without placing ... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car... ...ing the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall. Emmy, it must be owned, found herself entirely at a loss in th...

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...le. The chief exceptions were when her eldest son, Harry, was at home from Oxford. He was devotedly fond of her, and all the more pleased and proud to... ...allow much, and she was a good deal worn out. So when at last they reached Exeter, and finding there would be two hours to wait, her uncle asked wheth... ...er own 84 The Two Sides of the Shield earnings, and how he had met her at Exeter station, and was so disappointed to have missed her father. Constanc... ...rs in- tercepted? And so the winter side of autumn set in. Hal was gone to Oxford, and there had been time for letters to come from Mr. Mohun, posted ... ...e had been his correspondent in school 96 The Two Sides of the Shield and college days, and being a person never easily rebuffed, she had kept up mor... ...room to talk over a letter from his father respecting his plans on leaving Oxford. The other boys hung about the hall, until Gillian and Dolores came ... ...tion of the whole affair, beginning with that meeting with Mr. Flinders at Exeter, of which no one had heard, and going on to her indignation at the i...

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... I was the first on the scene. The thing happened at the Harlow T echnical College, just beyond the Highgate Archway. He was alone in the larger labor... ...hand seemed to com- fort him immensely. He explained that when we left the College and drove home—he lived in Hampstead village— it appeared to him as... ...e in a scholarship competition, I be- came a medical student at University College, London. At the time of the beginning of my story I lodged at 11A U... ...he doorway. They were an excep- tionally heterogeneous assembly, for while Oxford and Cam- bridge still recoil from the blushing prospect of mixed cla... ... up his coat in the passage, the zoological demonstrator, a young man from Oxford, who secretly regarded him as a blatant “mugger” of the very worst t... ... stones!’ I says. ‘You come inside,’ I says, ‘and I’ll punch your blooming Exeter Hall of a head.’ “There was a kind of silence and more jabbering, an... ... and impossible. She tried once or twice to ascertain whether he came from Oxford or Cambridge, but he missed her timid opportunities. She tried to ge...

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... a patient’s death, which sometimes occur, between the most learned of the college; and which have greatly surprized that part of the world who have b... ...SING, THE BODY OF CAPTAIN JOHN BLIFIL. LONDON HAD THE HONOUR OF HIS BIRTH, OXFORD OF HIS EDUCATION. HIS PARTS WERE AN HONOUR TO HIS PROFESSION AND TO ... ...n whose integrity he placed much confidence. This Thwackum was fellow of a college, where he almost en tirely resided; and had a great reputation for... ...s? You must talk to another person in that manner. I remember Allworthy at college.” “I thought,” said the parson, “he had never been at the univers... ...ving at length gone through the school at Taunton, I was thence removed to Exeter College in Oxford, where I remained four years; at the end of which ... ...e through the school at Taunton, I was thence removed to Exeter College in Oxford, where I remained four years; at the end of which an accident took m... ...itney, where we staid all night, and in our return, the next morn ing, to Oxford, I met one of my cronies, who acquainted me with sufficient news con... ...action I received a slight wound. We rode near forty miles together on the Exeter road, and then abandoning our horses, scrambled as well as we could ...

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...rve that the Court removed early , viz., in the month of June, and went to Oxford, where it pleased God to preserve them; and the distemper did not, a... .... This direction of the physicians was done by a consultation of the whole College; and, as it was particularly calculated for the use of the poor and... ... were nothing like the number entertained since, were dispersed, either at Oxford with the Court, or in quarters in the remoter parts of the country ,... ...ndon was, as it were, entirely shut up; likewise the cities of Bristol and Exeter, with the port of Plymouth, had the like advantage to Spain, to the ... ... between the Lord Mayor and 207 Daniel Defoe the Court, which was then at Oxford, and what directions were from time to time received from the Govern... ...s, of whom I have said enough already. It may, however, be added, that the College of Physicians were daily publishing several preparations, which the...

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...e of business. He has been brought up as a gentleman; he has been at every college in Oxford 16 Reprinted Pieces and Cambridge; he can quote Latin in... ...ss. He has been brought up as a gentleman; he has been at every college in Oxford 16 Reprinted Pieces and Cambridge; he can quote Latin in his letter... ...r father live?” says I. “Just round the corner,” says the young man, “near Exeter Street, here. He’ll tell you who they belong to, directly.” “Would y... ... Piccadilly is also very kind to me when I am hard up. Likewise Mr. Nix of Oxford Street. I get a trifle from them occasionally, and rub on as well as... ... thanks and Good Night sink into their graves again. Thus, we make our New Oxford Streets, and our other new streets, never heeding, never asking, whe...

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...k at him, and forces him to neglect work for him, and keeps him under rigid coercion. I once knew a fancy terrier who kept a gentleman—a gentleman who... ...ide-mouthed bottle, unless he is with them and barking tremendously. There is a dog residing in the Borough of Southwark who keeps a blind man. He may... ...d me, so what is going on around me becomes something else than what it is. The stokers open the furnace doors below, to feed the fires, and I am agai... ...nd that his confederate may be at this moment taking impressions of the keys of the iron closets in wax, and that a delightful robbery may be in cours... ...nt town on the continent of Europe—I find very striking after an absence of any dura- tion in foreign parts. London is shabby in contrast with Edinbur...

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...ured him father and his friends that the thing had not suited him. Leaving Oxford without a degree,—for reading of the schools did not suit him,—he ha... ...ourse I do. How should I not, if you remember him?’ ‘Young men are boys at college, rowing in boats, when women have been ever so long out in the worl... ...word of all this, and was altogether undisturbed as he sat in his chair in Exeter Hall,— or just at this time of the year more frequently in the prov-... ...name. It used to be Benet 591 Anthony Trollope in my days. Walker and the College would certainly sell, but you’d have to pay for the land and the wo... ...perience ought to have told him that there was no chance of a lawyer and a college dealing together with such rapidity; but in the present state of th... ...ght he, dear? Mrs Fletcher says you are to get the lozenges at Squire’s in Oxford Street, and be sure to ask for the Vade mecum lozenges. She is all i...

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...Excerpt: When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He wa...

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...pe CHAPTER I ‘OMNES OMNIA BONA DICERE’ When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good t... ...essed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lu... ... at Framley Court. This visit was made; and it ended in Mark going back to Exeter with a letter full of praise from the widowed peeress. She had been ... ...s wrote about him in the highest terms. And then the lads went together to Oxford, and here Mark’s good for- tune followed him, consisting rather in t... ...uited to his son. Lady Lufton had not sent for Dr Robarts all the way from Exeter for nothing. The living of Framley was in the gift of Lady Lufton’s ... ... desired; he then travelled for eight or ten months with Lord Lufton and a college don, and almost immediately after his return home was ordained. The... ...by, has he spoken to you about selling that outlying bit of land of his in Oxfordshire? It belongs to the Lufton property, and yet it doesn’t. In my m... ... was Lord Lufton— Ludovic Lufton, Baron Lufton of Lufton, in the county of Oxfordshire. ‘And yet I don’t think Lufton gets much astray, ’ said Sir Geo... ...isit was paid to him in his Cornish curacy, by a brother clergyman, an old college friend, who, as far as might in him lie, did give aid to the curate...

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........................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HALL ..................................... 14 CHAPTER II ...

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...K I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE......................................................... ...I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRIN- ITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE. T HE ACTORS IN THE OLD TRAGEDIES, as we read, piped ... ...ttachment and loyalty to the Royal cause and person: and the King being at Oxford in 1642, Sir George, with the consent of 20 Henry Esmond his father... ... sacrifices and merits, his Majesty, by patent under the Privy Seal, dated Oxford, Jan., 1643, was pleased to advance Sir Francis Esmond to the dignit... ...st, and would get what he called an exhibition from his school, and then a college scholarship and fellowship, and then a good living—it tasked young ... ...ive me the greatest of joys—but I had a dear friend in Magdalen College in Oxford; I wish Joe Addison were here to convince thee, as he quickly could—... .... My Lady Duchess elect was giving audience to one famous silversmith from Exeter Change, who brought with him a great chased salver, of which he was ...

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...inceton, June 28, 1917. INTRODUCTION PHILLIPS BROOKS ONCE told the boys at Exeter that in reading biography three men meet one another in close intima... ...om the church of St. Clement Danes, from the Mitre, from Fleet Street, the Oxford coach, and Lichfield, if the burly figure were withdrawn from them; ... ... for her, from his father, a bible in that character. When he was going to Oxford, she came to take leave of him, brought him, in the simplicity of he... ... but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best q... ...r tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me I was the best qualified for the University that he had ev... ...ford, and was entered 31 Boswell’s Life of Johnson a Commoner of Pembroke College on the 31st of October, 1728, being then in his nineteenth year. Th... ...enth year. The Reverend Dr. Adams, who afterwards pre- sided over Pembroke College with universal es- teem, told me he was present, and gave me some a... ...anner. His first lodgings were at the house of Mr. Norris, a staymaker, in Exeter-street, ad- joining Catharine-street, in the Strand. ‘I dined (said ... ...r, that very emi- nent divine, the Reverend Zachariah Mudge, Prebendary of Exeter, who was idolised in the west, both for his excellence as a preacher...

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............................................. ............... 130 SPEECH: THE OXFORD AND HARV ARD BOAT RACE. SYDENHAM, AUGUST 30, 1869. .................... ...ire to see in every town in England. Next, I be lieve, is the Spring Hill College, a learned institution be longing to the body of Independents, for... ...t and ablest contributors to the Edinburgh Review. The next is the Queen’s College, which, I may say, is only a newly born child; but, in the hands of... ...s’s Theatre, for the purpose of establishing the now famous Royal Dramatic College. Mr. Charles Kean was the chairman, and Mr. Dickens delivered the f... ...then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. The very last time I was at Exeter, I strolled into the castle yard there to identify, for the amusemen... ...n against them. More recently still, the last time that he rowed down from Oxford he was supposed to cover him self with honour, though he must admit... ...y heart at between half past six and half past seven to night. SPEECH: THE OXFORD AND HARVARD BOAT RACE. SYDENHAM, AUGUST 30, 1869. The International ...

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...ol and Sidney Sussex. The Duke of Bellamont (then a dashing young sizar at Exeter) had a couple of rounds with Billy Butt, the bow-oar of the Bargee b... ... which we have mentioned. The dinner over, the young men rushed from their colleges, flushed, full-fed, and eager for battle. If the Gown was angry, t... ...’s hospital to the Blenheim turnpike, all Cam- bridge was in an uproar—the college gates closed—the shops barricaded—the shop-boys away in support of ... ... an Irish nation, a man of spirit and sinew, and Master of Arts of Trinity College, Dublin, the gentleman of our establishment confronted the menial, ... ...OF JANUARY, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and ...

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...ttle son Henry, who was ten years old, leaving her, as he thought, safe in Oxford Castle; but no sooner was he gone than Stephen brought his army, and... ...which did more for it than all the fighting kings had done—he founded Eton College, close to Windsor Castle; and there many of our best clergymen, and... ..., and Bishop Ridley and Bishop Latimer were both burnt at the same time at Oxford, encouraging one another to die bravely as martyrs for the truth, as... ... came across from Holland, and was proclaimed king in his uncle’s stead at Exeter. Many people in the West of England joined him, and at Taunton, in S... ...ef justice, was sent to try all who had been concerned, from Winchester to Exeter; and he hung so many, and treated all so savagely, 104 Young Folk’s... ... Europe, and said sadly, “Ah! that was a man.” Mr. Harley was made Earl of Oxford, and managed the queen’s affairs for her. He and the Tories did not ...

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...rself he was thought equal to the 78 Book I — Miss Brooke best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ..., you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take your degree.” Fred drew his mother’s hand down to his... ...Gentleman’s Magazine.” “Read me the names o’ the books. Come now! you’re a college man.” Fred gave him the titles. “What did missy want with more book... ... expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent time... ...ow standard to go by; at least, to my thinking, for I was born and bred at Exeter.” “A mother is never partial,” said Mr. Farebrother, smiling. “What ...

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... clever. And you know yourself he was thought equal to the best society at college. So particular as you are, my dear, I wonder you are not glad to ha... ..., you know—Fred, my dear—and I always tell him you will be good, and go to college again to take your degree.” Fred drew his mother’s hand down to his... ...Gentleman’s Magazine.” “Read me the names o’ the books. Come now! you’re a college man.” Fred gave him the titles. “What did missy want with more book... ...expensive and highly rarefied medical instruction obtained by graduates of Oxford and Cam- bridge, did not hinder quackery from having an excellent ti... ...ow standard to go by; at least, to my thinking, for I was born and bred at Exeter.” “A mother is never partial,” said Mr. Farebrother, smiling. “What ...

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...y satisfactory way to any calling. This son had been first rusticated from Oxford, and then ex- pelled; and thence returning to Barchester, had been t... ...d all dispute to call himself a doc- tor, according to all the laws of the colleges, made it known to the East Barsetshire world, very soon after he h... ...d much more severe than the last; and as this was copied into the Bristol, Exeter, and Gloucester papers, Dr Fillgrave found it very difficult to main... ...s moment I have to read for my degree like anything. I go up, you know, to Oxford. ’ ‘Degree!’ said the countess. ‘Why, Frank, I am talking to you of ... ...e may say, for our friend the doctor. In February Frank again went back to college; having settled with Harry Baker certain affairs which weighed on h... ...Some notice was, of course, taking of Frank’s pro- longed absence from his college; and tidings, perhaps ex- aggerated tidings, of what had happened a... ... the boards. Mr Oriel was a man of family and fortune, who, having gone to Oxford with the usual views of such men, had become inoculated there with v...

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... be. At length, a very old lady was heard to mumble, in indistinct tones, ‘Exeter Hall. ’ A sudden light broke in upon the meeting. It was unanimously... ...The frost is com- pletely broken up. You look down the long perspective of Oxford-street, the gas-lights mournfully reflected on the wet pavement, and... ... back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any ‘buss’ on the road, whether it be fo... ...ands, that a buss was building, to run from Lisson-grove to the Bank, down Oxford-street and Holborn; and the rapid increase of busses on the Paddingt... ...uare, of which the four sides abut respectively on the Old Bailey, the old College of Physicians (now form- ing a part of Newgate-market), the Session... ...h the clocks at St. Clement’s and the New Church, the illuminated clock at Exeter ‘Change, the clock of St. Martin’s Church, and the clock of the Hors...

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... be. At length, a very old lady was heard to mumble, in indistinct tones, ‘Exeter Hall. ’ A sudden light broke in upon the meeting. It was unanimously... ...The frost is com- pletely broken up. You look down the long perspective of Oxford-street, the gas-lights mournfully reflected on the wet pavement, and... ... back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any ‘buss’ on the road, whether it be fo... ...ands, that a buss was building, to run from Lisson-grove to the Bank, down Oxford-street and Holborn; and the rapid increase of busses on the Paddingt... ...uare, of which the four sides abut respectively on the Old Bailey, the old College of Physicians (now form- ing a part of Newgate-market), the Session... ...h the clocks at St. Clement’s and the New Church, the illuminated clock at Exeter ‘Change, the clock of St. Martin’s Church, and the clock of the Hors... ...ver—he certainly deserved it. ‘I have frequently observed a chimney-pot in College- green, Dublin, which has a much better effect,’ said the patriotic... ...nother, when he was a wisitin’ at some gentlefolk’s house, as he knowed at college, he came 456 Sketches by Boz into contract with the young lady. He...

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...ire to see. These two brothers had been brought up together in a school at Exeter; and, being accustomed to go home once a week, had often heard, from... ...ject to my youth, and to my not being a Master of Arts?’ ‘The absence of a college degree is an objection,’ replied Squeers, looking as grave as he co... ...ugh, and there are flats of all sorts and sizes when there’ s a meeting at Exeter Hall; but perfect aquilines, I am sorry to say, are scarce, and we g... ...et the night you danced with the baronet’s nephew at the election ball, at Exeter! It was tremendous.’ ‘I always suffer for these triumphs afterwards,... ...as a young lady, and before she was married, she was turning a corner into Oxford Street one day, when she ran against her own hairdresser, who, it se... ... before you were born,—I have often heard them say , that the young men at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxf... ...at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxford nightcaps are quite celebrated for their strength and goodness; so m... ... three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers’ daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.’ After utt...

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... to be got about the court, I know; for a friend of ours (Miss Cropley, at Exeter, my dear Kate, you recollect), he had one, and I know that it was th... ...as a young lady, and before she was married, she was turning a corner into Oxford Street one day, when she ran against her own hairdresser, who, it se... ... before you were born,—I have often heard them say , that the young men at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxf... ...at college are uncommonly particular about their night- caps, and that the Oxford nightcaps are quite celebrated for their strength and goodness; so m... ... three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers’ daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.’ 239 Char...